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Bulgarian partisans enter Sofia on 9 September. Bulgaria was in a precarious situation, still in the sphere of Nazi Germany's influence (as a former member of the Axis powers, with German troops in the country despite the declared Bulgarian neutrality 15 days earlier), but under threat of war with the leading military power of that time, the Soviet Union (the USSR had declared war on the ...
This is a list of coups d'état and coup attempts by country, listed in chronological order. A coup is an attempt to illegally overthrow a country's government. Scholars generally consider a coup successful when the usurpers are able to maintain control of the government for at least seven days.
On April 24, 1941, Bulgaria and Germany secretly concluded the Clodius-Popov Agreement, which gave Germany unlimited rights to exploit the natural resources in the newly conquered lands, and Bulgaria undertook to pay the costs of German military facilities, to pay off Yugoslavia's financial obligations to Germany and to establish the ...
Pages in category "Military coups in Bulgaria" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ... 1886 Bulgarian coup d'état; 1923 Bulgarian coup d'état;
The red and black flag used by the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization and more broadly by supporters of an autonomous or independent Macedonia. The Independent State of Macedonia [a] was a proposed puppet state of Nazi Germany during the Second World War in the territory of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia that had been occupied by the Tsardom of Bulgaria following the invasion of ...
1982 Bangladeshi coup d'état: General Hussain Muhammad Ershad led a military coup to depose the civilian government, led by President Abdus Sattar, and install Ershad into power. 1982 Central African Republic coup attempt; 1982 Kenyan coup attempt: An attempted military coup failed to overthrow the government of President Daniel arap Moi.
The capital of Bulgaria, Sofia, and other Bulgarian cities, were bombed by Allied aircraft in 1943 and 1944. As of October 2024 [update] , the declarations of war against Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania are the last formal declarations of war by the United States Congress, which in the era of collective security has largely ceded the war power ...
Bulgaria continues to participate actively in military missions and to have a close security partnership with the U.S., NATO and the European Union. As of October 2007, Bulgaria had 380 soldiers taking part in the NATO Mission in Afghanistan ; 152 soldiers serving with the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq ; 35 to 40 soldiers serving on a NATO mission ...